Posted on 10/13/2020 9:29:29 PM PDT by bitt
An Air Force Global Strike Command official has given us an indication of how fast the Air Force’s new Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon will fly.
The U.S. Air Force says the hypersonic boost-glide vehicle warhead in its forthcoming AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon hypersonic missile will fly at an average speed of between 5,000 and 6,000 miles per hour. This would be roughly between Mach 6.5 and Mach 8. At that speed, it will take only 10 to 12 minutes to strike targets 1,000 miles away. Air Force Major General Andrew Gebara, Air Force Global Strike Command’s (AFGSC) Director of Strategic Plans, Programs, and Requirements, disclosed the information in an interview with Air Force Magazine.
Expected to be the first hypersonic weapon to become operational with the U.S. military, the Air-launched Rapid-Response Weapon, or ARRW, which is pronounced “arrow,” will be carried by the command’s B-52H strategic bombers.
“This thing is going to be able to go, in 10-12 minutes, almost 1,000 miles,” Gebara said in the interview, which you can read in full here. “It’s amazing.”
This appears to be the first time that the Air Force has officially commented on ARRW’s speed with any specificity. Before now, it was understood that the weapon would be capable of hypersonic speeds, which are simply defined as anything above Mach 5.
To attain hypersonic speeds, the missile consists of a solid-fuel rocket booster, fitted with pop-out tail fins, and an unpowered boost-glide vehicle. After being propelled to a specific speed and altitude atop the rocket booster, the wedge-shaped boost-glide vehicle continues to its target at hypersonic speed.
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How was it said? We all know how the next World War will be fought. And that WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones?
Or something like that...
Cost?
Just need one fired at the Three Gorges Dam. And no more filthy Communist Chinese.
All countries that are currently trying to develop hypersonic missiles have one problem. At hypersonic speeds, the missiles often disintegrate before hitting their target.
Yep, get those puppies ready for China...
“”...WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones””
Historical note: Pershing missiles flew low trajectories at Mach 8. Just bring them back for surface to surface hypersonic use. 30 meter accuracy with a nuclear warhead.
Nuff said.
Read my mind. Given the stress it’s been under, let them try to prove it wasn’t a dam failure.
“All countries that are currently trying to develop hypersonic missiles have one problem. At hypersonic speeds, the missiles often disintegrate before hitting their target.”
Some might actually believe what you post!
So far our adversaries have all had enough time to decide it was a glitch and not real, thus avoiding the launch of a counter strike.
“Historical note: Pershing missiles flew low trajectories at Mach 8. Just bring them back for surface to surface hypersonic use. 30 meter accuracy with a nuclear warhead.”
Pershings were ballistic missiles!
The responsible leaders of a Chinese war of aggression could be fairly
targeted, sure.
But a quarter of a billion Chinese murdered by blowing up their Dam
leaves over a billion harmed Chinese looking for righteous justice.
You may be sick, suggesting such a thing, “Citizen”...
Deployed on B-52s, the new missile will empower military demonstration and coercive diplomacy. Sending a wing of B-52s with the missile to Guam, for example, offers a warning to China and North Korea. Even a USAF goodwill tour of several B-52s to Vietnam and India would set Chinese strategists and planners reaching for the Pepcid.
None of this matters
One word. Nukes.
100 MEGATONS AND UP
ON MULTIPLE REENTRY VEHICLES ( mirv for rio Linda )
Too slow against a superior alien race.....
I see what you're saying.
However, you also need to take into consideration that China has a HUGE population of single men who will never, ever be married thanks to their one-child policy where Chinese would kill baby girls and keep baby boys.
Thanks to this, China has a great amount of cannon fodder they can deploy to any spot on the globe - not caring if they live or die.
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